Welcome from western Colorado. Where at in WV? Wrecked a lot of deer as a Penna kid in WV over the years.
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Welcome aboard.
I refer to the rear-end as a "Ducatti" look although that's just a slang term I applied and I didn't like it either. My partner and I have already torn the rear of my Street 750 apart and here's a picture of it down to the bare bones.
It's downright sexy when looking at it from this perspective but we haven't added a "standard" rear fender yet. We will but we're doing a lot more than that because we also want to eliminate the dual external shocks/springs and build a new swing-arm assembly that will use a center mounted mono-shock. We love the very lean and slender sexy look that removal of the dual shocks/springs offers. We'll also plan to incorporate the rear running, brake and turn signal lights as an LED strip mounted on the underside of a "standard" fender as well.
As you can see from this tear-down picture it wouldn't be all that hard to mount an aftermarket fender to the stock chassis. It might require cutting the back part of the frame (behind the shock mounts) and a little welding to accomodate the change but I haven't looked at that type of limited change so far. I'll check it out during this coming week and see what my partner and I might be able to suggest for this modification.
LOVE IT. Can't wait to see the end result. We have opted to remove the entire black plastic fender (leaving the painted fender), side vertical mount the tag (drill a nice, close mounting hole in the swingarm for the bracket), then utilize two LED high-lumen strips, equal on both sides of the lip of the back fender, that will run red, bright red for stop, then change to amber for turns. We are going to run a could similar strips in the front ON the fairing, running with those little "channel" lines on the fairing to give it an almost flush look, and remove all signals.Welcome aboard.
I refer to the rear-end as a "Ducatti" look although that's just a slang term I applied and I didn't like it either. My partner and I have already torn the rear of my Street 750 apart and here's a picture of it down to the bare bones.
It's downright sexy when looking at it from this perspective but we haven't added a "standard" rear fender yet. We will but we're doing a lot more than that because we also want to eliminate the dual external shocks/springs and build a new swing-arm assembly that will use a center mounted mono-shock. We love the very lean and slender sexy look that removal of the dual shocks/springs offers. We'll also plan to incorporate the rear running, brake and turn signal lights as an LED strip mounted on the underside of a "standard" fender as well.
As you can see from this tear-down picture it wouldn't be all that hard to mount an aftermarket fender to the stock chassis. It might require cutting the back part of the frame (behind the shock mounts) and a little welding to accomodate the change but I haven't looked at that type of limited change so far. I'll check it out during this coming week and see what my partner and I might be able to suggest for this modification.
Can't wait to see what everyone's solutions are - the nice part about these bikes is pretty much everything we are doing is proprietary!
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